The Taiwanese restaurant has never been given lip service, whereas Beverly Soon Tofu-JGold’s darling-is lauded left and right. Every branch is popular, and even its extra-large flagship line commands 30-minute waits during weekends. Order this: Stir-fried stinky tofu, three cup cuttlefish, spicy intestine casserole with pork blood Boiling Pointīoiling Point is a smoothly run operation that is also the first hot-potting “concept” to make it big in the SGV. However, it had lines out the door long before the 626 Night Markets opened and millenials began hashtagging #bobalife. The decade old Taiwanese Hooters-equivalent, with Taiwanese street food and stinky tofu, is admittedly gauche and raunchy. Good for: Pre-gaming with feather-adorning waitresses Order this: Peking-style ribs, green-onion lobsterĪddress and phone: 663 S San Gabriel Blvd (62) Lunch stir-fry specials start at $5.50 and are probably better than the food covered in The Search for General Tso. Families head to the old-timey Tin Tin because of its consistency, extreme affordability, and unfussy environs. But, in case you hadn’t heard, Cantonese people don’t only eat dim sum, noodles, and porridge. One of Monterey Park’s oldest popular Cantonese restaurants offers little of the fanfare from glorious dim sum and seafood houses. Order this: Cari ga, bun nuoc leo bac lieu Tin Tin It’s a refreshing deviation from the standard Vietnamese shops offering pho and bun bo hue, but it only seats a dozen people on a good day. Stinky Vietnamese noodle soup made of shrimp-which most white people would shudder at the thought of-is the main attraction at this 600-square-foot shoe box. Good for: Authentic replication of a Saigon hole-in-the-wall with no door Order this: The fried crab roll in lettuce wrapĪddress and phone: 9442 E Garvey Ave (62) After all, they do bump EDM from an iPod.
A few young millenials, backed by a middle-aged Vietnamese kitchen crew, run the show here. Don’t be alarmed by the street-styled graffiti paintings of Vietnamese street food on the walls. Unlike at the JGold-endorsed Golden Deli, lines are minimal.
This Northern-style pho bac shop specializes in pho made famous at San Francisco’s Turtle Tower. Good for: Saving an airline ticket to Hanoi, Vietnam Pho NgoonĪddress and phone: 741 E Valley Blvd (62) Gold might already adore, but has not yet inked into his handy 101 pamphlet. To conclude our unofficial #JGold week, we give you a rundown of the best SGV restaurants, both old and new, serving everything Taiwanese spicy-intestine casserole with pork blood, to Burmese noodles- places that Mr. Perhaps, then, good press is also wasted on restaurants already popular with the locals. Gold admits bad press is a waste on restaurants his readership won’t bother visiting. Despite all of this, the curious state of SGV restaurateuring typically means a Gold review holds little weight for the businesses here like it does for other locales at the end of the day, local restaurant operators understand their target audience is non-whites. One of Gold’s favorite areas to explore was the western part of San Gabriel Valley, a pan-Asian dining enclave just east of the Downtown Los Angeles metro area, and home to some of the best dumpling houses and banh mi sandwiches this city has to offer. With less column space and a new set of responsibilities, there has been a drop in ethnic coverage compared to his days spent at the alt-weekly-even if you take into account his hand-selected network of scouts. But his role gradually changed several years ago when he left the L.A. Jonathan Gold’s calling card has always been his knack for tracking down budget-friendly eats on the outer reaches of L.A.’s sprawling immigrant communities.
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